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#iomivaccino: where are we in Italy and in the world

7609 vaccinated in two days out of 9750 doses arrived. This was the departure of vaccinations in Italy, pending the weekly supply which should be regular between now and March. In these days, delayed due to bad weather, 470 thousand doses reserved for doctors and health personnel should arrive. Piedmont and Liguria have already communicated the postponement to December 30, but it could also happen for other regions where Pfizer, from Belgium, is unable to deliver.

ITALY
The shipments of the multinational are scheduled for the next three months up to 7.8 million doses by March, increasing in the number of deliveries up to 600 thousand per week.

They are a million less than those foreseen in the initial plan, but there is also a higher yield of the vials that contain more doses and therefore could be used for more people. According to the contract, Pfizer-BionTech and Moderna are expected to deliver 10 million doses to Italy in the quarter.

I am in general health workers are the first to be vaccinated, but there are those who think of leaving from RSA as in Tuscany because vaccinators can be sent here without the need for a reservation. In Emilia-Romagna, vaccination should start in parallel in hospitals and homes for the elderly.

GERMANY
The assignment of doses, the symbols of Vax day and the others, was made at a European level based on the population. However, 150 thousand doses arrived in Germany on 26 December for the following days and three other shipments are expected within the first week of January to reach almost 2 million doses. Berlin it has an organizational machine ready for vaccinations and therefore it is said to be ready to receive more doses than the Italian plan. In spring, 30 million doses are also expected to arrive in Germany, which the German health ministry has bought with a bilateral agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech. The agreement has angered the European partners because it is in breach of the Community agreement which guaranteed the right to health equally for all Union citizens.

EUROPE
In France, on December 26, 19,500 doses arrived according to the European plan. Spain will receive 350,000 doses per week and citizens who refuse to be subjected to the coronavirus vaccine will be entered in a registry, which will be shared with European partners. In Portugal, 80,000 doses of the vaccine will be delivered by the end of the year. About 10 thousand doses the first shipment in Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Norway and Sweden.

According to the centralized purchasing plan the EU buys from six pharmaceutical groups: in addition to Pfizer-BioNtech, the American Moderna, the Anglo-Swedish group Astra-Zeneca, the French Sanofi, the German Curevac and Johnson & Johnson. In total 1.95 billion doses to be distributed proportionally according to the population of the countries.

UK E USA
Autonomous vaccination in the United Kingdom, which also leaves the EU only on 31 December. In the US already more than two million doses of the vaccine administered. “We will not have peace until vaccines are accessible to everyone,” said the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, but there is the fear that many countries may remain on the sidelines of the campaign.

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